NATO is supposed to be a defensive alliance. Only if a NATO country is attacked does article 5 kick in. Though Clinton bent the rules in the war against Milosevic. Anyway Def Sec Hegseth already told them if they want to send troops do it without us and article 5 will not be recognized in Ukraine. Though I wonder what happens if Russia decides to retaliate? I still don’t think we’d go in. Europe has gone nuts. There is something personal in this for them. Maybe they want the minerals all for themselves. lol. Not to mention someone has to protect the safe deposit boxes.
The plan is to send NATO "peacekeeprs" into Ukraine so when they get in the line-of-fire between Ukraine and Russia they will call it an attack on NATO and invoke Article 5.
Those minerals may or may not be there. The claim of heir existence was fifty years ago and no one tried to do capitalize them. Whether or not they are there is not the determinant for our proffered contract. If accepted it would place American interests on the ground without the threat of troops. Putin is not at all likely to challenge that but Z simply does not want the war to end so long as he can pile up American tax money in safe banks with it. Greedy crooks do not know when to quit and retire to the Riviera or to Caracas
and live the rest of their lives in stratospheric luxury. They can only see MORE.